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Apparently back in the day of wooden boats and real winters, I would accumulate along the Delaware river and destroy the boats. This is one of several ice breakers designed and built in the mid 1800's to create a safe harbor for the boats.
While I was waiting for the Rock Pipits to appear, I was able to capture these breakers near the Staffin slipway. The sea conditions were quite strange. There was very little wind and the sea was a flat calm but obviously there must have been a swell as these breakers were crashing on to the offshore rocks.
Something different for 2024, I decided to reconnect with my old love for black and white minimal photography.
Circuit Breaker (right) is an evolution of Ryan H's Phasor (left). Built for round 5 of the Starfighter Telephone game.
Advanced alien technology puts delicate mechanics on the outside. While this provides acute sub-wave sensitivity, Circuit Breaker scout ships must rely on their quick maneuverability provided by retractable retro-thrusters, in order to survive forays in hostile space.
Also because of advanced alien technology, Circuit Breaker ships have laser saw fangs instead of any ranged weapons or countermeasures.
The Breakers is a Vanderbilt mansion located on Ochre Point Avenue, Newport, Rhode Island, United States. The building became a National Historic Landmark in 1994 and is a contributing property to the Bellevue Avenue Historic District. It is owned and operated by the Preservation Society of Newport County and is open for visitation on a year-round basis.
The mansion was built as the Newport summer home of Cornelius Vanderbilt II, a member of the wealthy United States Vanderbilt family, in an architectural style based on the Italian Renaissance. It was designed by renowned architect Richard Morris Hunt with interior decoration by Jules Allard and Sons and Ogden Codman, Jr. The 70-room mansion has a gross area of 125,339 square feet (11,644.4 m2) and 62,482 square feet (5,804.8 m2) of living area on five floors, constructed between 1893 and 1895. The Ochre Point Avenue entrance is marked by sculpted iron gates, and the 30-foot-high (9.1 m) walkway gates are part of a 12-foot-high (3.7 m) limestone-and-iron fence that borders the property on all but the ocean side. The footprint of the house covers approximately 1 acre (4,000 m2) of the 14 acres (5.7 ha) estate on the cliffs overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. (Wikipedia)
On the last day of our 4-day storm-watching trip to Vancouver Island's west coast, a big one finally arrived - prompted by an offshore cyclone. Overcast, heavy rain, and a fierce wind. This was taken from the Wild Pacific Trail, near Amphitrite Point, Ucluelet. Nearly all of the colour images taken appeared as if they were in black & white. Some, like this one, showed only tinges of colour, at best.
I hope that your Monday is serene and full of peace.
Recrop of an older post per a simple, insightful comment from heather. :)
Brendan - it appears that I have deleted the wavebreakers blur. Such a shame, sorry.
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The side view of the Breakers mansion in Newport, RI.
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Towering over the local landscape the Locust Summit breaker of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal & Iron Company stands silent. The breaker, built in 1930, was capable of processing 15000 tons in a 24-hour period, and operated for a quarter century before being permanently shut down. The breaker stood for another 47 years until it was demolished in 2002. The complex housed many treasures, including CNJ 0-6-0 113, which worked at the facility from 1953 through 1960, and languished at Locust Summit for another 20 years before being moved to the Wilmington & Western.
Here the breaker is largely intact in 1992. The large shed to the right of the breaker houses dual rotary car dumpers. Why would a facility that loads outbound coal for shipment to customers need rotary car dumpers? The answer lies in the function of an anthracite breaker as a processing plant, and not necessarily as a part of a specific mine. The breaker separated rock from coal, and then sorted the coal into various sizes for shipment to market. The Reading delivered mine-run coal from various mines in the region, and then hauled an equivalent amount of finished product away from the breaker. This is one of only a few on-line industries that received and shipped the same commodity.
"White and fleecy waves looked soft as carded wool," from The Wreck of the Hesperus, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Berlin is the best example that walls between people are a very bad thing!
shot on agfa ct100 slide film with a Praktika (RevueFlex) fully manual SLR
Getting a little fed up of this rain, roll on 2016 and hopefully some decent weather :) Sunset taken at the end of summer on our local beach.
The griffon vulure, a bird of prey. He looks malignant with his 'angry eyes'.
Griffon Vulture.
Vale Gier.
*Gyps fulvus*